Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-21
MONTANA MATTERS.

Anaconda merchants repOr to the he.
view that collections are not al good this
month as they had expected, but station
business is stated by Agent Beebe to be
constantly increasing.
Incorporation is being mooted in Ana.
cOnda.
Big Hole River is booming, and the fords
are 10 danger of becoming impossible.
The total value OF county warrants is
sued in Bozeman since April 1 is over $4.-
100. and on Wednesday last 436 were
issued.
A man in Livingston dropped dead i'm
mediately after taking q hath. He was
too sudden, probably, with his spring
cleaning.
Bozeman has put up 500 on a base
ball match with Livingston.
Last week a grizzly bear killed thirty
hogs on a ranch of Cannon & Mullery, at
Gorham, OF the east side. Fresh pork is
now at a discount on the ranch.
The process of digging up the Wickes
mountain for the purpose OF constructing
railroads is opening the mineral with which
it is filled.
Bad as are the roads between Anaconda
and ~Philirsburg, stage travel continues
heavy and schedule time is made.
The boys Of Anaconda have caught Oh
to the ground squirrel bonanza at 5 cents
per pelt.
A good assayer would fill an aching void
in Anaconda.
It is now certain that the Rocky Noun.
tain Telegraph Company will build a line
to Anaconda. They are now at work be.
tween here and Deer Lodge digging post
holes, and the wire is being strung between
Helena and Deer Lodge from the last
named city. The main line of the company
will follow the wagon road to Anaconda
and go from here to Butte.-Review.
The stockmen are all busy o making
preparations for the spring roundup.
The tramway from Lion hill to the Hecla
Concentration is again filled with snow. 1t
has been shoveled out several times at a
cost Of about $4,000.
The Glendale postmaster has resigned
twice, but no one can be got to take the
office. 1t must be a very lean job.
A small smell er is wanted at Vipond
Park. Timber and ore are there in abun-
nance, and several hundred tons of good
smelling ore is on the du Il ps of the mines
in the vicinity Of Sheep Mountain.
A large camp Of gypsies is located near
Melrose; along the Utah & Northern rail-
Dad track. Chickens had better roost
high there at present.
FROM Glenweod to Hecla, a distance of
three and one-half miles, the mail and
passengers are taken on a sleigh.
An exchange says: Mrs. Jessie Benton
Fremont will spend the summer in the
West and will write a life of Kit Carson, the
Mrs. Fremont is the wife of Gen.
John c. Fremont, SO well known as a
soldier and statesman, and mother OF
Lieut.. Frank Fremont. of Fort Missoula.
The Sheriff Of Custer County has a GIMP
cooking outfit in the Court House yard at
City to supply the Jail until his
house is rebuilt.
Mushrooms are numerous around Miles
City.
Louis Anderson, who go seriously shot
Mobiles in the saloon at Philipsburg
last winter, was found guilty last week and /
sentenced to two and a hall years in the |
penitentiary.
The Bozemanites are setting out Cotton. |
OF Balm Of Gilead trees.-Exchange. |
This reminds us that an experienced arbor-
some years since stated to US
that the above were the male and female OF
the same species of tree. We pause for a
reply.
McCune & Co., who have the big wood
from the Anaconda Company,
Sil begin f1uming about the 18th inst.
They have about $1,000 cords ready to |
handle, and expect to be able to fume co.
100 cords at least this season. They have
attended their1lumes this year until they
low have about twenty-five miles, reach.
ng over the divide until they catch some
# the water hat otherwise flows into the
Big Hole.
Northern Pacific Agent Armitage, of
Station, eloped with b edaugh.
er Of a farmer named Whitesides recently.
he couple reached the Pullman of the
asst bound train just as the father and
lother reached the platform armed with
uns. They made no attempt to enter the
rain and the young couple succeeded in
citing away. |,
The new bridge over the Beaverhead at
win Bridges is completed. 1t was con-
by the King Bridge Co., Of Ohio,
nd cost, exclusive. "f the approaches,
$500.